Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To tie or bind with a ligature.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To bind with a ligature; tie.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To tie with a ligature; to bind around; to bandage.
- transitive verb (Molecular biology) To concatenate two strands of (nucleic acid, usually DNA), in an end-to-end fashion, using a ligase.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
bind with aligature orbandage .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb bind with a bandage or ligature
- verb join letters in a ligature when writing
- verb bind chemically
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I know there are professors in this country who "ligate" arteries.
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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I know there are professors in this country who "ligate" arteries.
Medical Essays, 1842-1882 Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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Ensuing discoveries of other natural catalytic RNAs that could cleave and ligate phosphodiester bonds, and the very recent observation that the region surrounding the peptidyl transferase center of a bacterial
The RNA World 2010
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At that time, it had only been demonstrated that RNA could cleave or ligate phosphodiester bonds.
The RNA World 2010
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Instead I've ended up working 10-11ish hour days trying to play catch up to get the World's Most Uncooperative Plasmid to ligate my oligonucleotides and getting the yeast ready to do the shuffle.
Archive 2008-05-01 Amanda 2008
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Instead I've ended up working 10-11ish hour days trying to play catch up to get the World's Most Uncooperative Plasmid to ligate my oligonucleotides and getting the yeast ready to do the shuffle.
I like my whine well aged Amanda 2008
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It had taken over three years to test and litigate Carrie's case, but less than an hour to cut and ligate her
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I do not want to extract, digest, ligate, transform, inoculate or incubate anything.
Brimstone and Fire microbiologist xx 2008
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I do not want to extract, digest, ligate, transform, inoculate or incubate anything.
Archive 2008-07-01 microbiologist xx 2008
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This also requires the intervention of enzymes that cut and re-ligate the DNA at appropriate positions.
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